Building Quotes

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.

Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!

Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

Early on, with any startup show, you're really building credibility and making it stand on its own.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing - building more muscle!